Design. Disrupt. Repeat. Be an agent of change on a team committed to achieving client-focused, mission-driven excellence. Steampunk is looking for an experienced Systems Engineer with an appetite for taking on new challenges.
This individual will join a team of highly technical and proactive IT experts with the shared purpose: to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of engineering, systems and infrastructure initiatives. The customer’s mission is to enable secure, effective, and efficient operations for functional divisions by applying innovative approaches to accelerate the delivery of value to the end users.
This individual will provide technical expertise and managerial skills necessary to support the customer by helping to refine requirements for the DHS personnel and scope and plan proposed build, design, engineer, and test cycles. Deliverables include agenda, meeting minutes, attendee list, action items, closed action items, MS PowerPoint slide briefing materials, agendas, and schedule of events.
This individual will, in accordance with DHS Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), deliver comprehensive concept briefings which detail the methods by which the IT solutions or concepts will be engineered, delivered or service rendered. These are to conform to the Program Management Professional (PMP) best practices as to the content and specific items needed to be provided. Additional deliverables include project management documentation such as project schedule, milestones, gate reviews, assigned personnel, deliverables dates, and estimated costs.
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This individual will use an integrated master schedule to identify projects, engineering projects, maintenance upgrades, test events and internal tasking as a means of coordinating and/or de-conflicting the use of hardware, software, personnel resources, and communications links required to perform the mission supporting organizational and customer needs in dynamic environments. The contractor shall aid in the maintenance and continuously update this integrated master schedule to balance requirements from our customers and to be able to provide the highest level of support for operations, engineering, applications development, multiple test environment activities, training and exercises.
This individual will contribute their experience managing multiple projects across multiple vendors at possibly geographically dispersed locations. They will lead, by example, by being service-oriented and customer-centric.
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Steampunk is a Change Agent in the Federal contracting industry, bringing new thinking to clients in the Homeland, Federal Civilian, Health and DoD sectors. Through our Human-Centered delivery methodology, we are fundamentally changing the expectations our Federal clients have for true shared accountability in solving their toughest mission challenges. As an employee owned company, we focus on investing in our employees to enable them to do the greatest work of their careers – and rewarding them for outstanding contributions to our growth. If you want to learn more about our story, visit http://www.steampunk.com.
We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Steampunk participates in the E-Verify program.
On Tuesday the 23rd of July 2019, we proudly announced the transition from SE Solutions to “Steampunk” as our new company name! It’s a name chosen to convey creative confidence, strength, and growth, and to evoke a bold and diverse cultural connection with all of our employees, partners, clients, and communities. It symbolizes the collision of humans with technology; a retro-futuristic name that will Stand Out among our peers in the industry. It respects the past and inspires our future in a memorable way to both our company and our clients. You’ll notice a new tagline as well, “DESIGN. DISRUPT. REPEAT.” a simple, but powerful phrase that represents how we solve our clients’ greatest challenges. Human-centered Design (HCD) will be at the core of a new methodology that all of our employees will apply to become more connected with our clients and to excel as a team and in each person’s individual role. Together, it creates a distinguishing, creative, and nimble, brand that embodies our core values and sets us apart from the “sea of sameness”.